Children below 14 years of age can get jobs without a work permit under the bill passed by West Virginia House of Delegates.
Representatives were divided on knowledge as a debate in the House on Tuesday, but the bill was passed with a quite widespread margin of 83–16.
Tods Longacre
“I have to say that many of us in this room probably worked when we were 12, 13, 14 years old, out of a farm, dug, digging the grass, digging posthumously, whatever we were doing,” Delegate Toddonakre, said R-Grenbier.
“And if children in our society need today, then you have to start learning work at the age of earlier. This is a good bill. Let’s allow those children to work. ,
Most of the House Bill 5159 work by giving details of the work permit requirements for 14- and 15-year-old children to parts of the existing law. The bill leaves the standard of a written parents.
The bill switchs supervision on the work permit from the State Superintendent to the State Superintendent for the Authority of Age Certificates by the State Labor Commissioner.
Jyoff Foster
“All this is saying that you do not have to go through that magnificent process of work permit to be able to do some work for your child,” said Delegate Geoff Foster, R-Putanam.
David Elliot Pret
Delegate Elliot Pret, R-Fiyet, spoke against the bill and raised questions about the parents who financially benefit their children from working. A teacher, Pret also questioned the impact on the achievement and attendance of the student.
And he said that West Virginia has long -working participation issues, but the print said that the bill is not a proper response.
“I don’t think opening the labor force for 14 -year -old children in the eighth grade is the answer to the problems we have,” the print said.
John Williams
Delegate John Williams, D-Monongalia, asked “What is being given about children’s children, to pursue an education.”
Chris Philips
House Sarkar Sangathan Samiti Chairman Chris Philips said that Bill will put parents in charge of decisions about their children’s work activities.
“Parents are gatekeepers for their children,” Philips, R-Barborb. “And when we may have some examples of parents that are not doing their work, it does not mean that every child in the West Virginia state should be punished for it.”